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If I were to receive a research grant to conduct linguistic study, I think I’d do a comparative study with two languages and how they deal with gender. I’d pick one language that has a very strong concept of gender, like French or Spanish, and compa
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If I had a research grant to conduct a linguistic study on Turkish, I would study how the Turkish language reform from the early 1900's has impacted the evolution and usage of the Turkish language. The reform was established to replace Arabic and Per
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I actually have written in Turkish since day one. I’m a good note taker, and writing concepts down in my own words helps me process what I’m learning. That’s how I learn in regular university classes and it’s also how I learn in my foreign language
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.I prefer to write freehand in my journal with the new vocabulary that I'm learning. I've also been rewriting sentences from my worksheets to ingrain how Korean sentences are normally written and to reinforce my memory and learning. I've been typing
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According to the NY Times article, when settlers in the 1850s went out West on the Oregon Trail, the Native Americans were split from their tribes and were placed in arbitrary groups with other Native Americans. By sheer numbers and persistence, the
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I learned about the importance of the Korean Independence movement on March 1st. We spent time reading a Korean comic that explained what happened that day through characters that went back in time. We practiced our listening skills by having Seong-
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Languages can go extinct when they are not passed to younger generations and when people do not reinforce their use. People who speak endangered languages might also feel pressured to use more globalized languages with more speakers, encouraging them
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I revised my initial learning plan by adding more goals and details after meeting with Dr. Marsh-Soloway. I like the pace that I'm going so far. Though I deviated from my learning plan since then, I believe I am making progress. I made a suggestion t
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So far, I am very satisfied with my language learning process. I am learning at a faster pace than I had anticipated, and I feel like I have a better grasp of grammar than I didd during my previous foreign language learning endeavors. When I was lear
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Learning Turkish has been going well! I’ve definitely deviated from the learning plan in a few ways, but I think I’m mostly staying on track with my goals. I’m not going by my weekly goals that I had laid out in the learning plan, because Merve has
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Turkey has an extensive history marked by various cultural and linguistic interactions that have shaped the Turkish language that exists today. Turkish belongs to the Turkic language family, which includes languages like Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Uyghur, T
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Turkish belongs to the Turkic language family, and is the most widely spoken language in this family. 43% of Turkic-language speakers have Turkish as their native tongue, with Azeri (15%) and Uzbek (14%) as the next more popular. Turkic languages a
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Understanding language families can help us gain a quick grasp of the relationship between languages. Mastery in one language can help master other languages in the same group. Linguists keep track of languages through language family trees to see ho
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